New Job? Relax & follow the 90-day plan
Moving jobs can be stressful. You know what you're capable of, but you feel like you have to prove it to yet another set of people, a group of semi-sceptical will-be colleagues.
Month December 2010
Word Tag Clouds
Create word-based tag clouds really quickly and easily with Wordle.net. You can go really simple, just pasting in a list of words, or make up your own clouds, passing in word weights, colours etc. For instance, here’s a representation of…
SQL Server 2008 R2 System View Map
Microsoft have a brilliant poster showing all the different system views which are available in SQL Server 2008 R2. The views are split into different sections (Endpoints, Spatial, Indexes etc) and all the relationships between the tables are shown. It’s…
Demo: Norwich School Viewer
I’ve been playing around with the Silverlight PivotViewer, and used some education data from data.gov.uk to give a different perspective of education establishments in Norwich. The Norwich Schools Viewer allows you to find different schools, Early Years settings and other…
Silverlight PivotViewer: so fast to develop
On Friday, I created a working demo of the PivotViewer that demo’d in the Silverlight Firestarter keynote, which I blogged about a couple of days ago. Apart from being a ‘wow’ demo, I was keen to see how easy it…